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English
Etymology
From inside + -ly.
Adverb
insidely (comparative more insidely, superlative most insidely)
- In an inside or internal manner; internally.
1843, John Warden Robberds, Robert Southey, Sir Walter Scott, A memoir of the life and writings of the late William Taylor:You say something outsidely rude and insidely civil about its being my choice to edit; […]
1920, Willard Carver, Psycho-bio-physiology:That is mentally—outsidely, but not insidely. You have not relaxed down through your body at all.
1922, Painting & Decorating Contractors of America, National painters magazine:Five new members in the Connecticut club were taken on a selling campaign, over the hurdles of a couple of shrewd, hard boiled, insidely informed partners in a paint and wallpaper store — one of the roughest trips the quintet ever […]
1986, Harley Granville-Barker, Eric Salmon, Granville Barker and his correspondents:And all it means: yet it begins "outsidely", like any other day; even "insidely" — oh, yes, deep inside one, it is different.
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